Site Supply Chain Lead

Step into one of the UK's most advanced beverage manufacturing sites and lead the supply chain heartbeat that keeps it running. As Site Supply Chain Lead at Refresco Bridgwater, you'll be part of a senior leadership team driving performance across a 600+ person operation. You'll lead seasoned professionals, build trust and credibility across functions, and bring teams together behind a shared goal, delivering excellence safely, efficiently, and on time, every time.

Site Supply Chain Lead – Senior Leadership Opportunity

Shift: Days, Monday – Friday

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary with annual pay review
• 15% annual bonus
• Family Bupa Healthcare
• 4X Life assurance
• 8% pension
• £7000 Car allowance
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase extra holiday
• Access to our employee benefits platform Cheers, including healthcare cover, dental insurance, car scheme, activities pass, financial services, and more

Lead. Influence. Deliver.

At Refresco, we believe great manufacturing starts with great leadership — people who can inspire, collaborate, and make things happen. Our Bridgwater site is a state-of-the-art operation employing over 600 colleagues, producing millions of litres of drinks every week. As Site Supply Chain Lead, you'll be at the centre of it all, part of the Senior Leadership Team shaping the direction, performance, and success of one of the UK's most advanced beverage manufacturing sites.

This isn't a role for someone who wants an easy ride. You'll be leading a diverse mix of people, some new to the business, others with years of experience and strong opinions,  and uniting them under one clear vision. Building rapport, earning respect, and fostering collaboration across Planning, Warehousing, Production, Engineering, and Quality will be key to your success.

You'll combine strategic thinking with the credibility to influence at every level from the shop floor to senior management, ensuring that supply chain performance drives operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and sustainable growth.

What You'll Do

• Lead the Supply Chain function for the Bridgwater site — covering Planning, Scheduling, and Warehousing.
• Deliver performance excellence against all supply chain KPIs, including OTIF, waste, working capital, and stock accuracy.
• Drive planning and scheduling optimisation, ensuring effective MRP and inventory management that supports production and customer demand.
• Champion safety, quality, and compliance across warehouse operations, embedding a culture of responsibility and continuous improvement.
• Identify and lead supply chain initiatives, reducing waste, improving service, and optimising cost per pallet and OEE performance.
• Build and develop a high-performing team, fostering talent, succession, and strong leadership behaviours aligned with Refresco's values.
• Collaborate cross-functionally within the Plant Leadership Team to support site-wide projects, efficiency programmes, and performance targets.

About You

You're an accomplished supply chain professional who thrives in dynamic, fast-moving environments. You have the resilience and interpersonal strength to lead through challenge, the confidence to influence senior peers, and the empathy to build lasting rapport with teams at every level.

You'll also bring:

• Extensive experience in Supply Chain leadership, including logistics and warehousing in an FMCG or blue-chip environment.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to identify optimisation opportunities and implement sustainable improvements.
• Experience working within complex, matrix organisations and cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with modern supply chain methodologies and systems such as SAP.
• A proven track record of leading teams to deliver outstanding operational results while nurturing a culture of empowerment and excellence.

Join Refresco and help shape the future of great-tasting drinks. Apply now and refresh your career.

What We Offer

• A leadership role at a state-of-the-art, 600+ person manufacturing site.
• The opportunity to shape and influence supply chain strategy at site level.
• A focus on Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) and being a Great Place to Work.

Be Part of Something Bigger

At Refresco, we don't just make drinks, we make possibilities happen. If you're ready to lead, influence, and deliver in a role where your impact is visible every day, we'd love to hear from you.

About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees.

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we're only just getting started.

We're the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers. Whether it's packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.

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